"365 AMAZING TRIVIA FACTS FOR 2012"

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1. What's the difference between hay and straw?

2. What is the name of the main street in Eleanor, West Virginia?

3. Which five countries have a star pattern representing the Southern Cross constellation on their flags?

4. How many mosquitoes--taking one suck each--would it take to drain all the blood from the average human adult?

5. In what month does Oktoberfest begin annually in Munich, Germany?

1. Hay is cut and dried grass, clover, alfalfa, oats, and other grasses and legumes used as feed for farm animals; straw is the hollow stalks of wheat and other grains left over after harvesting and used for livestock bedding and mulch, as well as weaving hats and baskets.

2. Roosevelt Boulevard.

3. Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Samoa, and Papua New Guinea.

4. Approximately 1,200,000.

5. In September. This year's celebration--the 200th--began on September 18 and ends today.